Example sentences of "[vb past] what [pers pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 You seen what they 've been doing ?
2 In June , Roland found what he had been looking for .
3 It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for .
4 The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for .
5 At last she found what she 'd been looking for .
6 ‘ She confirmed what she has been attempting to gloss over in her bid to become deputy leader — that she is still as left wing as ever … a unilateralist in the mould of Tony Benn himself .
7 She guessed what he had been thinking and jumped in with a diverting remark .
8 ‘ But they loved what we 'd been doing .
9 In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ .
10 He looked at his eyes and his ears and his teeth and his droppings and the ends of his claws and he inquired what he had been eating .
11 ‘ What would she say if she knew what we 'd been doing tonight ? ’
12 At last she knew what he 'd been keeping from her .
13 Now Zen knew what he had been thinking .
14 They had watched her , in the council estate , they knew what she had been doing .
15 I saw what she 'd been smiling at .
16 But his head cleared as the pain receded and he remembered what he had been going to ask Curtis .
17 I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 .
18 ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’
19 Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right .
20 In her disappointment Chesarynth missed what he had been saying .
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